Excuse Me, Your LIFE Is Waiting

[Dover]

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I've recommended this book here before, but thought I'd mention it again. It's an excellent antidote to the negativity that seems to run rampant in our times (especially if you spend a lot of time listening to the media...or even on DU). It also offers a 30 day plan for creating joyful changes in one's life, releasing ourselves from undue stress, negative thinking, addictions, and all the things that take us further AWAY from our authentic selves and life purpose.

If anyone here has read it already, I'd love to hear your thoughts and experiences of this book.

http://www.amazon.com/Excuse-Your-Life-Waiting-Astonishing/dp/1571741941

[I Have A Dream]

1. I hadn't heard of this book before, but it certainly reminds me of what...

is discussed in the Abraham teachings.

The preview function at the link that you posted is really nice.

This is a great reminder.

Dover, have you read "Ask and It Is Given" by Esther and Jerry Hicks? If so, is this the same material?

Thanks!

[Dover]

3. Hi Dream

Unfortunately I'm not familiar with that book by the Hicks. Tell me more.

I associate the message of Grabhorn's book with how Gregg Braden describes 'prayer' in
his book, The Isaiah Effect. He describes an experience with a Native American
friend who showed him how to "pray rain" (as opposed to praying FOR rain).

"The secret is that when we ask FOR something, we acknowledge what we do not have.
Continuing to ask only gives power to what has never come to pass.
The path between man and the forces of this world begins in our hearts. It is here that
our feeling world is married to our thinking world. In my prayer, I began with the feeling
of gratitude for all that is and all that has come to pass. I gave thanks for the desert
wind, the heat, and the drought, for that is the way of it, until now. It is not good.
It is not bad. It has been our medicine.

Then I chose a new medicine. I began to have the feeling of what rain feels like. I felt
the feeling of rain upon my body. Standing in the stone circle, I imagined that I was in
the plaza of our village, barefoot in the rain. I felt the feeling of wet earth oozing
between my naked toes, I smelled the smell of rain on the straw and mud walls of our village
after the storms. I felt what it feels like to walk through fields of corn growing up to my
chest because the rains have been so plentiful. The old ones remind us that this is how we
choose our path in this world. We must first have the feelings of what we wish to experience.
This is how we plant the seeds of a new way. From that point forward our prayer becomes a prayer
of thanks.....through our thanks we honor all possibilities and bring the ones we choose into
this world."


Interestingly both these books came out about the same time. They both carry the message that
it's not just about thought or positive thinking. We must engage our hearts...our "feeeeeelings", as Lynn Grabhorn says.
And she outlines a way to go about doing that in her 30 day plan.
It's a practice that most of us need in order to retrain our perceptions and way of communing
with our world.

[Delphinus]

11. So,

for loud neighbors, I need to "pray quiet"? I need to tune them out, being quiet?

[Sanity Claws]

2. I read it a couple of years ago

It was my introduction to the thought - manifestation link. For me, it was a novel way of thinking but she is rather simplistic. For what's it worth, the author committed suicide.

[Dover]

4. I was not aware of that. So very sorry to hear it.

She brought a beautiful message to the world.

I think the message IS pretty simple...deceptively so.
But then that's just me.

[Why Syzygy]

5. I didn't know either.

http://www.stevepavlina.com/forums/intention-manifestation/5217-lynn-grabhorn-author-excuse-me.html

[Dover]

6. Are you familiar with Grabhorn's writings?

If so, what's your take on this?

[Why Syzygy]

7. I've run across

references to her work while pursuing Abraham Hicks' material. While I was searching, I read part of an interview with her, which was interesting. I don't know whether she was ill? The post on that link seems to indicate she was very satisfied with her decision. I don't really have an opinion. It's just what she chose. I wonder about the reasoning. How about you?

[Dover]

8. I don't know anymore about it than you.

It's sad when anyone chooses suicide.
But a choice it is, and I wouldn't presume to judge.
It doesn't, for me, diminish what she brung to the game.

[SheilaT]

9. While I'm not familiar with that book

I do believe there is a certain amount of truth in the idea that we all create our own reality. I am sometimes amazed at the negative remarks so many people make all the time. On a recent cross-country journey I spent time with one friend who never stopped commenting negatively on all the overweight and obese people we saw. Yeah, there are a lot of them out there, but I'm more inclined to feel sorry for someone like that, and know that I do not know the exact circumstances of their lives. Another friend would not stop commenting on the lousy drivers in his part of the country. He was convinced that drivers there were the worst in the country, and didn't believe me when I assured him that there are bad drivers everywhere.

Another thing. You hear a lot of women saying things like "My great aunt had breast cancer and so did my grandmother and I just know I'm going to get it." Our bodies hear what we say. I'm sure that at least some portion of my very good health is that I simply don't dwell on possible negatives. If I have an ache in my side, I don't assume the worst, as it seems too many people do. Of course, one should never ignore obvious symptoms of some malady, but living and thinking in a positive way will always be for the best.

[Why Syzygy]

10. I saw an example

of a driver griping so much about the parking, that he drove right by a spot at the front. Focus!

I told a long time friend that I don't like to make fun of people. We were eating at Luby's one day, and she kept wanting me to look at someone wearing "funny pants". She immediately saw the wisdom, and doesn't do that any more. I also have a friend, a road rager, who has allergies and every other known ill, and claims he will die young. I know he will. He's written the script.

God give us the ability to hear ourselves.